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Yes, Steve Jobs was CEO of Next when they got bought
But it's great at dissolving bones, and it does that even if you just get it on your skin
Re:History of the Italian Electrical System on Friday May 17, 2024 @11:42AM (#40391098)
That has the center earth pin. Doesn't fit in to Schuko
Re:History of the Italian Electrical System on Friday May 17, 2024 @11:32AM (#40390997)
440V would be split phase. We have 400 3phase here
Even 5 cm is more than enough for home use, or do you know a chip that is bigger?
Re:It's official: ADSL works over wet string on Friday May 17, 2024 @09:44AM (#40389780)
If it's also used as an analog phone line don't touch, if it's ringing you will get shocked
Is that enough for just the TCP ACKs?
You can record it with a PC. Just make sure to use a lossless format
How well does this work with lossy compression? I would trust only lossless formats and analog with digital data encoded as audio, but I have zero hands-on experience with this
Both the CD and the ZX Spectrum came out in 1982
Re:The Performance Impact of C++'s `final` Keyword on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @03:33AM (#40141684)
8 hours should be enough to let the temperatures settle
Re:The Unix-Haters Handbook [pdf] on Monday April 22, 2024 @10:48AM (#40114927)
Nothing, the book is mostly about proprietary Unices
Re:The Unix-Haters Handbook [pdf] on Monday April 22, 2024 @05:34AM (#40112700)
For (1) there's stuff like BTRFS snapshots, or you could use Git on top of the FS
XP wasn't that early. IDE worked out of the box. But if you had a RAID setup or something else that needed a driver (early SATA?) you could load the driver there
Re:FuryGpu – Custom PCIe FPGA GPU on Thursday March 28, 2024 @03:26PM (#39856267)
If you do want to learn about pipelines, or want a more powerful breadboard computer without 6502 you should check out James Sharman[1] on YouTube. He has VGA and audio output too. [1] https://youtube.com/@weirdboyjim
Re:Why is it so hard to build an airport? on Friday March 22, 2024 @10:46AM (#39791257)
Allow only short distance deliveries by truck
Re:RP2040 Boot Sequence on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @01:41PM (#39758321)
Why? If you use only 1.1 features on a 2.0 platform it would work just like on 1.1 but faster. If you're on a USB1.1 platform and want to use a 2.0 feature you could just use a 2.0 platform without any changes to the existing code
Re:Hurried Thoughts: You're Wrong About Tidal-Locking on Thursday March 07, 2024 @05:22PM (#39635303)
China had the sea between China and Japan, and they had some nice oceangoing ships¹.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_(ship)

Re:Hurried Thoughts: You're Wrong About Tidal-Locking on Thursday March 07, 2024 @04:51PM (#39634981)
A planet that Spins only once in one of its years probably isn't dipolar
Re:New FCC standards should consider latency on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @03:45AM (#39535558)
If it's to the nearest IXP the ISP could create it's own IXP and measure latency to that. So it should be to not just any IXP, but a well-connected one
Re:A Plea for Lean Software (1995) on Monday February 19, 2024 @04:51PM (#39435267)
They could ship a web server that listens on 127.0.0.1 and launches the standard browser
If the distributor doesn't want it anymore the author or publisher should get a different one